Woroni Edition Six 2017

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Woroni Issue 6, Vol. 67. Week 11, Semester 1, 2017

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My Get-intowhitehouse-free card

Lest We Forget: The Frontier Wars

Doing Nothing as a Political Act

Are you ready to fake it til you masc it?

Rewriting the narrative of ANZAC Day

Grad jobs: it’s not you, it’s me

I (TH)INK NOt: THE EVOLUTION OF TATTOO CULTURE Getting under your skin and deep into history

STUDENTS FIGHT BACK Lindell, Hugh Tex t: Jasper x Koslowski, McClure, Ma ina-Beven Bella Di Matt

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The group also called for the education minister to come out of the building and meet with them. ‘[The government] want us to pay thousands and thousands of dollars more while giving millions of dollars of tax cuts to Turnbull’s mates at the big end of town – which is just absolutely disgusting,’ one of the protesters told the group, as they stood opposite police protecting the front entrance of Parliament House. ‘And we are here tonight when this Budget is being handed down to say to government, you know, that students are going to fight,’ she said. She said that students on campuses all over the country had come out to oppose the cuts proposed by the government since they were announced before the Budget.

PROTESTS LAUNCHED AGAINST FEE RISES, UNI CUTS

She described the politicians as ‘filthy, filthy, filthy, disgusting excuses for human beings’, saying that their proposals would be vehemently opposed by students around the country.

‘Some might see it as destructive. But what’s not destructive about making students pay more for their education?’

‘We are here because we demand, you know, more funding for education.’

‘It’s important for students to directly tell the minister for education what we think,’ she said.

Many of the protestors who were at Parliament House on Tuesday night were also part of the group which disrupted Birmingham’s speech at the National Press Club the week before. Birmingham described the protest as ‘side entertainment’ before continuing his address.

Vanamali Hermans, who was among the group of protesters at Parliament House and the Press Club, told Woroni that she expects student protests against the government’s proposals, which she described as ‘fee deregulation by stealth’, would get bigger.

The National Union of Students education officer, Anneke Demanuele, said that she supported the protest which disrupted the education minister’s speech at the Press Club in Canberra.

‘Any time Simon Birmingham or any Liberal MP sets foot on campus and tries to push this agenda they will be met by equal force,’ she said.

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